Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains

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Lot 207 | Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains
Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky MountainsGeorge Ruxton, 1848RUXTON, George Frederick (1820-1848). Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848.First American edition in rare original wrappers. Ruxton had served in the British Army in Canada but sold his commission in order to travel: through the Canadian wilderness, then to Africa, then back to North America and the Great Plains. "One of the best known travel narratives of the fur trade era, describing [adventures] in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in 1846. Ruxton's account is one of the best written of the area" (Reese). Wrappers are not recorded by either Howes or Wagner-Camp; Howes records London edition wrappers, but not American. However, we do trace one and only one such copy at auction: sold at Parke-Bernet in 1969, from the stock of Peter Decker. Best of the West 100 (London ed.); Howes R-553; Wagner-Camp 139:2. Two volumes, 12mo (194 x 127 mm). Single ad leaf for T. Maclear, Bookseller of Toronto tipped in at front of Part Two (his small label also on front cover of Part One). (Scattered foxing.) Original printed wrappers (Part One with back wrapper lacking and supplied in sympathetic paper, backstrip chipped and heavily glued; Part Two rebacked and dampstained; both chipped at edges.) Custom slipcase. Provenance: Thomas Mossington, 1780-1864, an early settler of Georgina Township in Ontario (contemporary ownership inscriptions to front wrappers and flyleaves of both parts).
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